Posted on 06/03/2012 11:29:07 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
War in the White House: attorney general Eric Holder and top Obama adviser David Axelrod 'had to be separated'
Eric Holder, Barack Obama's attorney general and David Axelrod, his top political adviser had to be separated after squaring up during a furious row over attempts to impose White House operatives in the justice department.
By Jon Swaine, Washington
6:22PM BST 03 Jun 2012
Eric Holder, who heads Mr Obama's justice department, is said to have become "incensed" after being accused by David Axelrod of complaining publicly about political interference in his office.
"That's bull****," Mr Holder said in a confrontation after a cabinet meeting, according to author Daniel Klaidman. He writes: "The two men stood chest to chest. It was like a school yard fight".
The relatively mild-mannered Mr Axelrod is said to have told the attorney general: "Don't ever, ever accuse me of trying to interfere with the operations of the Justice Department", a taboo in US politics.
In 'Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency', Klaidman discloses the struggles within Mr Obama's White House at it mounted its controversial campaign against al-Qaeda.
He writes that Mr Holder and Mr Axelrod were separated by Valerie Jarrett, a White House adviser and confidante to Mr Obama. Ms Jarrett "pushed her way between the two men, her sense of decorum disturbed, ordering them to 'take it out of the hallway'," says Klaidman.
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The NYT must have missed that one.
Maybe one day we’ll get some mature adults in power instead of these cry baby self serving kindergartners we have now.
Frankly, I’m sick of the BS coming out of the Government. I’m sick of our elected officials doing everything they can to make everything they can illegal and grant themselves more power.
After Fast and Furious, I don’t trust the Government AT ALL, I don’t respect it, and I will not honor ANY exemptions for the Government that is denied the citizens in anything we do here.
We’ve tried the surrender liberty for safety and it’s not working. I want my Rights back. ALL OF THEM. The Government has WAY overstepped it’s bounds and it better back the hell up and get in it’s place before the People put it back in it’s place.
So what happened?
Does the rooster ever unload on the cat?
They’re all idiots.
Pshaw...If a confrontation did arise, which is doubtful, it had to be with cream puffs at 25 paces.
hahahahaha! LOVE that, it made me laugh and laugh!
No, they've got it. They are just sitting on it until they can figure out how to make Republicans look bad when reporting it.
I wish we had a free press.
Hitler denied it this morning on Face the Nation.
Knowing Aslerod's track record for lying, that means it did happen.
I don’t like Holder but Axelgrease gives me the creeps almost as bad as Soros and Dingy Harry. Those are some spooky Flukers.
I thought Holder was the political insider at Justice ?
Portrayed as the Noble and the Nobler. Axelrod doesn’t need to install White House operatives in DOJ, Holder’s already there.
ueah,Jusrice is totally politicized. What is Holder’s beef?
Hardly a school yard fight which involves scraped knees, bloddy noses, and lots of dirt and grass stains. Politicians would never get their hands dirty. This was merely posturing.
The War on Terror and
the Soul of the Obama Presidency
by Daniel Klaidman
Kindle Edition
Eric Holder, who heads Mr Obama's justice department, is said to have become "incensed" after being accused by David Axelrod of complaining publicly about political interference in his office... The relatively mild-mannered Mr Axelrod is said to have told the attorney general: "Don't ever, ever accuse me of trying to interfere with the operations of the Justice Department", a taboo in US politics... were separated by Valerie Jarrett, a White House adviser and confidante to Mr Obama. Ms Jarrett "pushed her way between the two men, her sense of decorum disturbed, ordering them to 'take it out of the hallway'," says Klaidman.
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